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The practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
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cannibalism
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of eating another of one's own species. 2 In speech, the occurrence of one word "eating" part or all of the next word, because the syllables are the same. For example, "Look, an MIT shirt" for "Look, an MIT T-shirt".
Wikipedia
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Cannibalism is a compilation double album by Krautrock artists Can which was released in 1978.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cannibalism \Can"ni*bal*ism\, n. [Cf. F. cannibalisme.] The act or practice of eating human flesh by mankind. Hence; Murderous cruelty; barbarity. --Berke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1796, from cannibal + -ism . Perhaps from French cannibalisme , from the same year.
Usage examples of cannibalism.
Having been in Italy, he was taxed with Italian vices: he would have been accused of cannibalism had his path lain towards the Caribee Islands.
The Masai and the Swahili will join them in bringing back slavery, the hunting of heads, cannibalism.
Woundings, slashings, cannibalism, pederasty, paedophilia, intestinal rape, sadistic penetrations of infants and the ageing became commonplace.
From what they had been able to piece together, many members of Congress had been secretly supporting the movement of the Believers, the Night People -- creepies to the Rebels coma bizarre religion that embraced cannibalism.
The Rebels resumed their slow, block-by-block taking of the last major bastion of lawlessness and cannibalism and slavery in the lower forty-eight.
According to Weidenreich, the fossil remains of Sinanthropus individuals, particularly the skulls, suggested they had been the victims of cannibalism.
Weidenreich felt that cannibalism among Sinanthropus individuals was the most likely explanation.
Marlowe figured that they had to be less spectacular cousins to the urban vampires or the bands of mansonards who roamed the deepest badlands terrifying the vags and the joads and indulging their preoccupation with rape and murder and, according to rumor, the occasional piece of cannibalism and the odd human sacrifice.
Given conditions on Glory, Defoe thought cannibalism should at least be legal.
The abomination feeds on the life force of her motherno, not mother, the unfortunate vessel that once hosted the childyou all shivered at the cannibalism of the Tenescowri, what think you of a creature that so devours the life-soul of the one who birthed it?
As though, Mr. Vholes and his relations being minor cannibal chiefs and it being proposed to abolish cannibalism, indignant champions were to put the case thus: Make man-eating unlawful, and you starve the Vholeses!
For clearly such tribal practices as cannibalism, torture, and female genital mutilation antedate modern times.
By popular superstition, every officeholder, appointive or elective, is suspected of living by a process midway between cannibalism and vampirism, and classed with robbing the dead.
The Conforming Wee Free Kirk which sent out a hypership to found the Canmore Republic bought the latest in ships and skimped on the supplies, so that the engine trouble which prolonged the voyage left the ancestors of the Republicans a short step from cannibalism.
And there's a third class of related claims, repressed `memories' of satanic ritual cults - in which sexual torture, coprophilia, infanticide and cannibalism are said to be prominently featured.